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Hi Rajini, yeah I definitely agree that it's right for photons (Bose-Einstein statistics), but it apparently also holds for resistor noise -- in fact, I've written it in the form given by Nyquist in 1928 in his "thermal agitation of electric charge in conductors". So I guess my question is: why...

Hi all -- I had a question about the Planck black body / Johnson-Nyquist resistor temperature formula: \[ E_{\nu}^{2}d\nu=\frac{4R_{\nu}hd\nu}{e^{h\nu/kT}-1}\] I'm just wondering why the formula has $ exp(h\nu/kT)-1$ in the denominator? I would have expected $ exp(h\nu/kT)+1$ as...